[CALUG] Loading DSL onto Compact Flash.

[Jason Dixon]

On Aug 18, 2006, at 8:22 PM, Dave Dodge wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 11:47:39AM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
>> The write issue with CFs has long since been fixed.  Nevertheless, it
>> continues to rage on as a myth.
>
> "fixed" how?  By new flash technology?  By simply having so much
> memory and wear leveling that you never write a single block enough
> times to wear it out?

The sheer volume of reserve cells negates the limit of write cycles  
on any particular cell or group of cells.  "Fixed" might have been  
the wrong choice of words, but the point is that concerns surrounding  
routine writes to CF are simply not realized with "modern" flash media.

P.S.  I'm not suggesting anyone build a compile farm off discarded  
Soekris/WRAP boxen and PNY CF media.  If you're already sending your  
syslog to a central logging server (which you should be), how much I/ 
O do you really expect these systems to suffer anyways?

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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
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